"He was good--as good as the law would let him be--better, indeed, for he left me property, which really the strict law does not allow.

He loved our little daughter very much.

He wrote to his mother and sisters, owning all his error and asking them to take the child and bring her up.

I sent her to them when he died, which was soon after, and did not see my child for sixteen years.

But we wrote to each other all the time, and she loved me.